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At left, Gary Clement's National Post cartoon from Friday. At right, a CBC TV crew spotted on Canwest death watch outside the Post's Don Mills HQ the same day.

Torontoist first learned of the mysterious case of the disappearing National Post this weekend, when we woke to find newspaper boxes empty throughout the downtown core. We had just started coming to grips with losing the Post’s Toronto magazine-style insert—a Saturday morning without the paper altogether seemed rather overwhelming. The forlorn boxes, like the one above at Bay and Bloor, bore only a sticker, notifying readers that those locations would no longer be serviced.

A characteristic of spending any good length of time on the internet is desensitization—one's tolerance levels for graphic horror are escalated with repeated exposure to lemon parties, tubgirls, a certain .cx domain, and the indelicate contents of 1 cup.

Starting September 1, the Hamilton television station known as CH will be rebranded as E! Entertainment Television. E! is an American entertainment and lifestyle cable broadcaster best known for its wildly successful E! True Hollywood Story series.

Ah, convergence. It's a word fraught with different meanings, competing motives, and opinions up the proverbial wazoo. To some, convergence is a paradise of synergy, cross-promotion, and massive profits. To others, it's confirmation that more and more information is being disseminated by less and less people. Wherever you stand, however, the world of Toronto media overlords might be on the verge of becoming a whole lot smaller, as Alliance Atlantis confirmed today that one of the companies it is in exclusive talks to sell itself to is none other than Canadian broadcasting and publishing behemoth CanWest Global.

So, what did you think of that nine percent increase in water billing? How would you like a TWELVE percent increase? Because water staffers are suggesting it as an "alternative plan." I suppose technically it's an alternative, but it doesn't have the feel of what an "alternative plan" is supposed to be; usually there's a sort of tradeoff involved, as opposed to "well, in this plan we raise prices, and in one we raise them even more."

Just in time for Halloween, St. Joseph Media has driven the stake through the heart of Saturday Night magazine.

CanWest Global Communications Corp., the Torstar Corp. and Metro International S.A. have combined powers to launch new free daily newspapers in Canadian cities, starting in Van-City. Announced on Monday afternoon, the three corporations are splitting the new papers into thirds, with 33 per cent going to each. The remaining per cent (33 + 33 + 33 = 99, no?) will be funneled into a massive joint-paper pizza party. Meanwhile, 18-34 year-olds are still awaiting CanWest's Dose magazine.